This is major homework. I'll perform some of the experiments tomorrow and get back to you with the results.
Another problem: The GoboLinux installer messed up the boot of the existing Ubuntu installation. I used gparted to make the sda1 partition smaller, created sda3, installed GoboLinux to sda3. The resulting grub menu lists both GoboLinux and the pre-existing Ubuntu installation, but the Ubuntu install wouldn't boot; it was trying to load the GoboLinux kernel, if my interpretation of the error message is correct. I repaired the grub install with the Ubuntu live CD, so now I can boot either OS. More tomorrow. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > This is indeed odd. Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log give any hints on the problem? > Also, could you let me know what's the output of "dmesg | grep efifb" on > the LiveDVD? > Could you tell me whether "efivar -l" outputs anything? > > Regarding your Nvidia setup: > One thing you could try is to edit GRUB's command line to add extra > arguments to the kernel. Some options that may help you are: > video=vesafb:off > video=efifb:off > video=efifb:stride:2048,width:1440,height:900 > > Note that, if you are running in pure UEFI mode (that is, "efivar -l" > outputs something), then booting with video=efifb:off will leave you with a > blank screen until nvidiafb is loaded by udev. > > Regarding your Matrox setup: > Is there any difference in the output of "lsmod" when you boot from the > LiveDVD and when you boot it from the installed system? Ditto for the > output of "dmesg". > > If possible, could you post the output of lsmod and dmesg somewhere? (e.g. > http://gist.github.com) > > Thanks, > Lucas > > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:31 PM, William Dudley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Addendum. I installed GoboLinux 16 to the hard disk. Tried to fire up >> X. That fails. Run Xorg -configure and startx -- -config xorg.conf.new; >> that fails. Reboot the Live DVD. Re-generate the xorg.conf.new that >> I had generated last time. I can get X session from the Live DVD. Save >> THAT xorg.conf.new to the GoboLinux partition on the hard disk. >> >> I reboot to GoboLinux on the hard disk. X doesn't work. The two >> different >> xorg.conf files only differ in things that are commented out, and yet, >> the Live >> DVD can run X, and the hard disk installation cannot. >> >> This is beginning to surpass the amount of time that can be wasted on a >> problem >> that I thought we solved 20 years ago -- how to get X running. >> >> Any suggestions on how to get X to run on the hard disk install? >> >> Thanks, >> Bill Dudley >> >> >> This email is free of malware because I run Linux. >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:33 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Lucas, >>> >>> Thanks for the reply. >>> >>> I should have noted in my original email that my video card on this >>> machine is >>> an Nvidia GeForce 6800. I eventually found this page: >>> https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Afterboot#Known_Issues >>> where it says Nvidia cards are "problematic" (my word). >>> >>> I cannot try running the two commands you suggest (at least with the >>> Nvidia card >>> installed), as the screen is unreadable from the very start. I see the >>> boot messages >>> scroll up the screen, and then when the extra-special GoboLinux font >>> kicks in, >>> I get "nothing" as described in my last email. >>> >>> I now know what the screen is *supposed* to look like, as I stuck an old >>> PCI bus >>> video card (Matrox Millenium II) in the machine (no on-motherboard >>> video) and got as far as the >>> text prompt where one is prompted to either run startx or Installer. >>> startx fails >>> as the Xorg on the DVD does not like my ancient Matrox video card. >>> >>> I tried the commands you suggest with the Matrox video card. That also >>> failed to get >>> an X session up. I then edited the xorg.conf.new file so that it had >>> video driver set >>> to "vesa" and now, finally, I have X and "awesome" up and running. >>> >>> So far I can't say I'm real impressed with "awesome", at least not with >>> the Goth "purple >>> on black" theme, and no apparent way (at least from the GUI) to change >>> the theme, >>> wallpaper, window focus rules, etc. I tried "Config" and that put me in >>> a nano session >>> editing a text file, but without significant documentation, I'll not be >>> changing anything >>> in there. I did look, and there appears to be only the one theme >>> installed on the machine. >>> >>> Is it possible to run Mate window manager in GoboLinux? >>> >>> Finally, somebody should update gobolinux.org to fix the search link. >>> The page that >>> needs fixing is this one: https://gobolinux.org/community.html >>> >>> Again, thanks for your help. >>> >>> Bill Dudley >>> retired software developer >>> >>> This email is free of malware because I run Linux. >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:50 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've tried two different monitors, and both of them don't work with >>>>> GoboLinux 016 DVD. >>>>> >>>>> The Dell just tells me that the video is out of range, and try to use >>>>> it's native 1600x1200. >>>>> >>>>> The (newer) Viewsonic just shows flashing vertical colored strips. >>>>> Good thing I'm not >>>>> an epileptic. >>>>> >>>>> Is it possible to boot the DVD up in "safe" mode at some "normal" >>>>> video resolution? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Bill, >>>> >>>> Could you try running the two commands below? >>>> >>>> $ Xorg -configure >>>> $ startx -- -config xorg.conf.new >>>> >>>> You may also make changes to the generated xorg.conf.new, as documented >>>> here: >>>> https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Running-unde >>>> r-VirtualBox >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'd have tried searching the archives, but the search link on the >>>>> gobolinux web site, to >>>>> search.gmane.org, doesn't work, Firefox says search.gmane.org doesn't >>>>> exist. >>>>> >>>>> ping search.gmane.org >>>>> ping: unknown host search.gmane.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> gmane.org has been shut down recently: >>>> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ >>>> >>>> As an alternative, you may use the following resource to search the >>>> mailing list archives: >>>> http://marc.info/?l=gobolinux-users&r=1&w=3 >>>> >>>> Lucas >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gobolinux-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gobolinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > >
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